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Win two tickets to see 'Caruso and the Quake' on 3 June at Trestle Arts Base

The first person to really say 'I'm a celebrity get me out of here'.

When tenor Enrico Caruso performed Carmen at the San Francisco Opera House in 1906, he was the most famous man in the world - having been the first recording artist to sell a million copies. The next morning, he awoke at 5am to find his bed rocking. He thought it was on a ship returning to his beloved Naples but he was at the centre of an earthquake which would kill over 3,000 people - the greatest natural disaster in America until Hurricane Katrina. The story of Caruso's dramatic escape rumbles into Trestle Arts Base on Thursday 3 June at 7:30pm.

When Caruso fled his collapsing hotel, he thought his fame and money would provide a horse and cart to carry him out of the city - but the noise had startled all the  horses and they'd run off. Worse still, when the housewives lit their stoves for breakfast, unaware that the gas mains had been fractured, they set fire to the city. The fire stations were built on landfill and had collapsed. When the fireman chopped their way out of the ruins, they discovered the water mains were broken too. The only way of stopping the fires sweeping the city was dynamite buildings to create fire breaks.

Mexican Tenor, Ignacio Jarquin recreates Caruso as his trunk is stolen, he avoids the bayonet's of soldiers evacuating the streets and takes refuge in a city of tents in Golden Gate Park, and sings some of Caruso's most famous operatic arias and Neapolitan songs - including the immortal 'O sole mio'. Caruso and the Quake was one of the hits of the Edinburgh Festival where The Stage said it was 'Compelling' and the Scotsman praised Ignacio's performance as 'Opera singing with a pure fresh quality'.

Trestle Arts Base are offering two tickets to see this amazing show and all you have to do is answer the following question:

Q: What was the name of the famous opera performed the night before the earthquake?

To enter, just email us your name, phone number and email address (with ''Caruso' in the email subject field) by Sunday 30 May.

Caruso and the Quake is at Trestle Arts Base in St Albans on Thursday 3 June at 7:30pm. Tickets: £11 Adults, £9 Concessions, £36 Family on 01727 850950 or online here.

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And the winner is...

Congratulations to:

• W Cooper who won tickets to see Caruso and The Quake at Trestle Arts Base
• S Curtis who won a hamper of farm shop treats and a family day pass to Willows Farm Village
• S Forbes, H Farr and T Morrish who each won a 60-minute reflexology pampering session with Well Being Therapieswho each won a pampering session at Well Being Therapies
• Rebecca, Emma, Caroline and Saffron; the winner and runners up in our Jo Banks Salon and Spa competition.